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Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (2006, Vintage International)

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were …

Review of 'Never Let Me Go' on 'Storygraph'

This is probably closer to 3.5 stars, as I'm still not really sure how I felt about this book. It will definitely lead to a good discussion, I don't doubt that. It was just so...weird. Ishiguro presents a very morally ambiguous story (human clones created specifically for the use of their organs), without casting judgement. I think that to me is the most unsettling aspect of this book. The idea of these characters being clones is not even really explicitly stated until 3/4 of the way through the book. The kids talk about it, but it's very casually mentioned and basically dismissed (or at least it seemed to be at the time) after a time. And where and from whom did these clones spring? There's no...beginning, and no real end. So disturbing.